Civ3.com Wallpapers. What are they?

[SerapisIV]

While most of the six wallpapers are easy to figure out, what are the first and sixth desktop pics?

1st Civ3.com Wallpaper

6th Civ3.com Wallpaper

The first wallpaper is listed as briggs_1024.jpg. So what the heck is the pic of? Sid checking out Jeff Briggs during an acid trip?

The sixth wallpaper is called launch6_1024.jpg, could this have something to do with the space vistory? It's seems too high-tech to be part of an Apollo animation. Also the rocket launch pad is listed as launch1_1024.jpg, so these two are probably related as all the other pictures have different names.

[MarkG]

Re: Civ3.com Wallpapers. What are they?

Originally posted by SerapisIV
The first wallpaper is listed as briggs_1024.jpg. So what the heck is the pic of? Sid checking out Jeff Briggs during an acid trip?

seems like jeff briggs in a matrix-like "cage"

[SerapisIV]

Re: Re: Civ3.com Wallpapers. What are they?

Originally posted by MarkG
seems like jeff briggs in a matrix-like "cage"

Hey I thought they took the sci-fi out of Civ3

[Kassiopeia]

Actually I think that Launch_6 is from the video you see when you launch for Alpha Centauri. They could be a megatechnological part of the engines, or the "cells" at the "branches" could be cryogenic chambers.

[Provost Harrison]

Image 1 is quite clearly Mother Teresa in her beard-and-putting-ECG-pads-on-her-head phase, or alternatively a man in stasis for the journey to Alpha Centauri.

Image 6 is quite obvious. It is a picture of a milk-bottling plant where a thermonuclear device has been detonated at the other end of it Alternatively it could be showing the core of the engine on the Alpha Centauri spaceship.

[d_dudy]

i think 1 is jeff briggs in one of those things in 6

[Laszlo]

For the briggs one maybe it's a brig, as in a jailers cell. Though even with the bolted steel casket he's lying in, those suction cups still give it that medical setting feel. Maybe Cure for Cancer?
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As for the last one, I thihnk Provost has it right with the engine. Maybe the fusion engine? It says launch also in the title, so it must be a colony ship movie screenshot vamped up to be high-tech and futurish for its win-the-game role.

[Buck Birdseed]

But I thought Civ3 wasn't gonna have Wonder Movies?

[Kassiopeia]

AFAIK building the colony ship to Centauri wasn't (and therefore isn't) a wonder.

EDIT: About the first screenshot... (only for SMAC players, sorry)
Bring up that, and the portrait of a certain Peacekeeper, and look for yourselves.

[d_dudy]

Bring up that, and the portrait of a certain Peacekeeper, and look for yourselves.

oh yeah!

how 'bout that? maybe the U.N. has something to do with the Alpha Centauri
endgame

[Inverse Icarus]

oh god sid. please no Lal. please no Lal.

[SerapisIV]

Originally posted by Snapcase
But I thought Civ3 wasn't gonna have Wonder Movies?

Yeah, that's been said and reiterated by Firaxis, so maybe their cutscenes from the end-game victories? That thought would lend credit to the high-tech and spaceship ideas. About Briggs, the hell if I know what it is from

[Kassiopeia]

IT MUST BE LAL!

Just take a really good look at it and think!

[Eli]

IIRC all wallpapers are "launch" something. Maybe all the pics showed when the site was launched are "launch".

[SerapisIV]

Only two of the wallpapers are launch, the missile and the funky 6th shot. The one that looks like Lal is labeled differently, it's labeled Briggs, so it's probably from a different movie